A musical adaptation of Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray's film A Private Function. Cameron Mackintosh's production of Stiles and Drewe's Betty Blue Eyes starring Sarah Lancashire and Reece Shearsmith Twenty six years ago Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray wove this story into a hilariously funny but sharply observed comic film called A Private Function which centered around Betty an adorable pig who is being illegally reared to ensure the local dignitaries can celebrate the Royal Wedding with a lavish banquet while the local population make do with Spam. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman have brilliantly adapted and expanded this story for the stage and George Stiles and Anthony Drewe have written a deliciously infectious toe-tapping retro contemporary score. The result is an utterly British musical full of eccentric characters such as the strange odd couple Gilbert an evangelistic chiropodist and Joyce a nobody determined to be somebody Inspector Worm old - an obsessive destroyer of illegal meat and Mother Dear She seventy four and ravenous along with a weird assortment of bullies spivs and snobs and of course Betty the pig
Tracklisting
1. Overture -- Austerity Britain (1:58)
2. Fair Shares For All -- Sarah Lancashire & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (3:42)
3. A Place On The Parade -- Reece Shearsmith, Sarah Lancashire & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (3:46)
4. Magic Fingers -- Reece Shearsmith, Annalisa Rossi, Gemma Wardle, Rachael Archer (4:37)
5. Painting By Heart -- Adrian Scarborough & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (5:07)
6. Nobody -- Sarah Lancashire & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (3:14)
7. Nobody (Part 2) -- Sarah Lancashire & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (2:42)
8. A Private Function -- David Bamber, Jack Edwards, Mark Meadows (2:59)
9. Betty Blue Eyes -- Jack Edwards, Reece Shearsmith (3:59)
10. Lionheart -- Sarah Lancashire, Claire Machin, Laura Medforth, Gemma Wardle & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (5:06)
11. Steal The Pig -- Reece Shearsmith, Sarah Lancashire, David Bamber, Jack Edwards, Mark Meadows, Adrian Scarborough & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (4:59)
12. Another Little Victory -- Reece Shearsmith, Sarah Lancashire & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (4:50)
13. It's An Ill Wind -- Rachel Archer & The Betty Blue Eyes Company (3:00)
14. Pig No Pig -- Sarah Lancashire, Reece Shearsmith, Ann Emery, Adrian Scarborough, Hollie Taylor (6:53)
15. The Kind Of Man I Am -- Reece Shearsmith (3:25)
16. Since The War -- David Bamber, Jack Edwards, Mark Meadows, Ian Conningham (Bonus) (BONUS) (3:03)
17. A Private Function (Reprise) -- The Betty Blue Eyes Company (1:40)
18. Finale Ultimo
Confessions -- The Betty Blue Eyes Company (8:18)
19. Magic Fingers (Reprise) -- Reece Shearsmith, Sarah Lancashire (2:18)
20. Betty Blue Eyes (Reprise) -- Reece Shearsmith, Jack Edwards, Andy Mace (1:29)
21. Jitterbug -- The Betty Blue Eyes Orchestra (1:36)
22. Magic Fingers (Complete Version) -- Reece Shearsmith, Annalisa Rossi, Gemma Wardle, Rachael Archer (Bonus) (BONUS) (5:37)
